Vanburen — boys' name
18 babies named Vanburen in U.S. Social Security records since 1914, with the highest year being 1917. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
72% of everyone ever named Vanburen was born in this single decade.
7 babies were named Vanburen in 1917 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Vanburen
The Social Security Administration has registered 18 babies named Vanburen between 1914 and 1927, spanning 14 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Vanburen currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1927. The name reached its historical peak in 1917, when 7 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Vanburen performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 13 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Vanburen shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Vanburen in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 18 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Vanburen at a glance
Last recorded 1927Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Vanburen popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1927–1914
- Peak year (1917)
- 7
- Annual births at peak — across 14 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1927.
18 total births across 14 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1917 with 7 births in a single year.
Vanburen by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1910s
- 13 births that decade — 72% of Vanburen's all-time total
Vanburen decade highlights
- Peak decade 13 births
- Runner-up 5 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1910s was Vanburen's strongest decade
13 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 72% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1914–1927 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.